Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commies go to it. Give them their share of newsprint and radio time, and let them rave. Let them address the D.A.R. in their Washington hall, if they can get an audience. Let them set up a soapbox in front of Independence Hall and holler their heads off. Let them lambast the Democratic and Republican Parties to their hearts' content (both parties need it every...
...Philadelphia lawyer. As general manager, suave Richard Slocum, former law partner of Owen J. Roberts, is the McLeans' right-hand man, gets along famously with their staffers as well. His sights are already set on the first objective in the Bulletin's second century: finding newsprint for the new Sunday edition (circ. 650,000 after only nine weeks' existence) to compete with Walter Annenberg's Sunday Inquirer...
...taking. In a special dispatch from Quebec, the Times talked about the "enormous profits" Canadian paper companies were making, showed that net profits of New York's International Paper Co. had risen 270% since 1943, that profits of another company had risen 500%. But the price of newsprint was boosted again last fortnight...
...press and five more to the government. Among these it urges a vigorous mutual criticism among the elements of the press and an increase in the effectiveness and independence of its staff (for example, by extending such programs as the Harvard Nieman fellowships). Since monopolistic tendencies involving newsprint, news services, and trade antagonism make increasingly difficult the founding of new newspapers, the government should enter the picture in a limited capacity. Anti-trust laws must be used to ensure real competition. The present libel laws must be made more effective in protecting persons injured by false statements. Going further...
Last week the committee called in 50 big publishers, asked how about sharing a little of what newsprint makers call "the currency of civilization." The guests just stared at the ceiling. But when impatient Senator Wherry threatened legislation to restore newsprint controls, the publishers promised to see what they could do. Local associations, they hoped, could see to it that no daily or weekly had to suspend...